The most popular PC games still rarely use hardware ray tracing

PC Gamer recently noted that, among the 21 most popular PC games of 2025, only five make use of hardware-accelerated ray tracing. While the demanding technology ...

Resident Evil Requiem's path tracing is tough on GPUs but it probably won't take as long as ray tracing did to become a mainstream option in games

Path tracing can make a game look absolutely astonishing, and although it will still hammer GPUs like nothing else for a good ...
TechSpot

Homebrew demo shows real-time ray tracing on 1994 Sega Saturn console

WTF?! Real-time ray tracing is one of the most computationally demanding features in modern video games, significantly impacting frame rates on the latest consoles and most PC graphics cards. However, ...
Rock Paper Shotgun

Resident Evil Requiem's zombie nightmare runs like a dream on PC

Resident Evil Requiem is one of the best-performing AAA games in years, with loads of PC-exclusive tools and settings.
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Forza Horizon 6 Doesn’t Have Ray Tracing on Xbox? How About the PS5?

Ray-traced global illumination, reflections, and shadows are some of the most visually stunning effects you could ask for in a racing game, especially one so gorgeous as Forza Horizon 6. However, it ...
HotHardware

1994 Sega Saturn Pulls Off Real-Time Ray Tracing In Stunning Homebrew Demo

The Saturn was Sega's fifth generation fully-3D console, launched in 1994 to compete with the PlayStation 1 and Nintendo 64—and all these years later, homebrew developer XL2 has managed to create a ...
GizChina

iQOO 15 Ultra: The First Phone to Master Ray Tracing and 120fps Simultaneously

Usually, you have to pick one: do you want it to look pretty, run smoothly, or have realistic lighting? iQOO says, "Why not all three?" By offloading these intensive tasks from the main Snapdragon 8 ...
TweakTown

DLSS 4 support confirmed for Resident Evil Requiem, Crimson Desert, and Toxic Commando

DLSS 4 comes to Resident Evil Requiem, Crimson Desert, and Jon Carpenter's Toxic Commando, improving image fidelity and ...

Resident Evil Requiem settings - get the best graphics

Optimize the PC game, with our guide to the best RE Requiem settings for frame rate, motion blur, ray tracing and more.
People

What We Know About Ray J's Health After He Claimed He Has Months to Live

Ray J claimed during a January 2026 Instagram Live that doctors told him he had months to live Emily Blackwood is a writer and editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has ...
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Ray J says his heart only functions at 25% and he may not have long to live

Singer and actor Ray J took to social media this week to reveal a poor prognosis for his health, sharing that his heart is “only beating like 25%” following his hospitalization for a severe case of ...
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Is ‘Can It Do Raytracing’ the New ‘Can It Run DOOM’?

Getting computers to do things they were never supposed to do has become an art form over the years. There’s an entire long-running community—the demoscene—dedicated to pushing the boundaries of ...